This T-Shirt from 200 Nipples is called RIP RIAA which I’m sure is a sentiment that many of us can get behind, and it’s intereresting that as this T-Shirt rails against an old business model, is being sold using a rather novel business model. Essentially 200 Nipples sell individually numbered limited editions of a T-Shirt with each number being sold from between $1 for number 1 to $100 for number 100. Here’s a screenshot of the buying page, as you can see lots of the spots have been sold, and some have a countdown running, which means it’s in someones cart right now.

This is similar in many ways to the web phenomenon from a couple of years ago called onethousandpaintings.com where someone sold 1000 paintings each of an individual number painted on a white canvas. These were dynamically priced so the price of remaining canvases went up as more of the paintings sold. The remaining canvases are selling for around $700 and on a secondary market are selling for as much as $3000.

Thanks for the link! I'm glad you thought it was interesting enough to write about.

If anyone 'round here cares to buy a shirt you can use the coupon code BEGINNERS-LUCK-10 for 10% off. It'll work on any first purchase from the site. I've been trying to spread that to around on blogs and stuff that are posting about us as a tip-of-the-hat sort of thing for interested communities.

Check out BLK TAG shirts as well.http://www.blktag.com
Limited edition T-shirts but with a story behind them. They are based on the very rare, historic and collectible Delaware black tags (license plates).